<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459848" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The presence of the truly great</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes yes.. I’ve not forgotten that: <br>the presence of the great – </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when destiny has brought you <br>to their presence; destiny <br>brought them, here, now, to you; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">how in their presence, duality itself <br>is magnified: do your palms slightly sweat? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">while unity is merely apprehended <br>as the world grows before your eyes? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great crooks too – who believe <br>that the world, the oystered pearl, is theirs; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and those great souls: whose gift <br>it is, to know the world, and tell; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">they show themselves; and you know that <br>you’re graced – but by the grace which, as they show, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">is always there; is always here; and humbled by this show, <br>in surfeit of this taste of grace, then quietly you leave.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they recede – or do they? – to <br>the sternest test: the memory: <br>a photograph, or record of their voice.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now: look upon their image, but without regret; <br>for this, your sternest test; the duty of true unity: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">they come to life again; again in you; <br>you carry them to show the world anew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459848" data-title="The presence of the truly great de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Yes yes.. I’ve not forgotten that: the presence of the great – when destiny has brought you to their presence; destiny brought them, here, now, to you; how in their presence, duality itself is magnified: do your palms slightly sweat? ..."></div> </div> </div>

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